Meanwhile, the effects of over 100 years of colonization were manifested daily in the lives of the working class exploited by multinational corporations, residents of Vieques whose family members had died in Navy bombings or from cancer, and the thousands of independentistas who had been persecuted, incarcerated or assassinated by Puerto Rican police and the FBI.
Entretanto, los efectos de más de 100 años de colonización se manifiestan en la vida diaria de los obreros explotados por las multinacionales, los viequenses que han enterrado a un familiar a causa de los bombardeos de la Marina de Guerra estadounidense o del cáncer, y los miles de independentistas perseguidos, encarcelados y asesinados por la Policía de Puerto Rico y el FBI.